After decades of watching Mario rescue Princess Peach, fans assumed their relationship was a romantic one, but Nintendo says otherwise.

Nintendo has always been weirdly cagey about the personal details of its most iconic characters—to the point that you have to catch one of the company’s executives on a very good day if you want them to confirm something as simple as whether Mario is Italian,

Even though Mario and Peach are one of the most iconic pairings in video games, Nintendo says their relationship is strictly platonic.